One of the two men accused of plotting to rob and murder singer Joss Stone told a jury today: "We were just going for a day out."

Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool were arrested in a red Fiat Punto seven miles from the soul star’s home in Devon.

Police found an "arsenal of weapons" including a samurai sword, two hammers, knives and two black balaclavas inside the car being used by the two men who lived together in a flat.

But Bradshaw, 32, told the trial today: "I had not heard of Joss Stone before this case.

"Kevin Liverpool was interested in music. We listened to music in his flat, just R'n'B and hip hop.

"He never mentioned Joss Stone when we were living in his flat."

Evidence: Court drawing of Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw in the dock

Bradshaw was asked whose idea it was to set off from their home in Manchester in the red Fiat at 2am on the day the pair were arrested in June 2011.

He replied: "I don’t know whose idea it was.

"We were just going for a day out."

When asked where the pair were going, Bradshaw said: "I don’t know."

His barrister Martin Meeke QC asked: "Do you remember what you were going to do when you arrived where you were going?"

Bradshaw, dressed in a dark hooded top, replied: "No."

Bradshaw denied seeing any maps in the car or a "big coil of hosepipe" in the boot.

He also denied seeing a hammer in the Fiat’s passenger footwell or a holdall on the back seat containing a hammer, balaclavas and gloves.

Bradshaw said: "I did not know they were in the car."

But he admitted he had previously seen the Samurai sword, saying: "I think it was Mr Liverpool’s.

"The sword was usually kept in the house. I did not know it was in the car."

Traumatic: Joss Stone in court last week (Image: PA)

Bradshaw admitted getting lost in country lanes in Devon and asking a postman for directions shortly before the pair were arrested in Cullompton.

But he denied showing the postman a picture of Joss Stone and asking where she lived.

He said: "We were trying to get back on the motorway and go home to Manchester."

The jury heard Liverpool, 35, will not be giving evidence in the witness box during the trial.

The prosecution claim the two men chose Joss, 25, as the target for their murder plot because of her links to the Royal Family. The singer was a guest at Prince William’s marriage to Kate Middleton two months before the pair were arrested.

It was alleged they were plotting to cut off the star’s head and dump her body in a river.

Prosecutors claimed the conspiracy was motivated by money because Liverpool owed more than £900 in court fines.

Liverpool and Bradshaw both deny conspiracy to murder and rob Joss and cause her grievous bodily harm.